The European Union and Africa: The Interregional Dynamics

International Workshop

Call for papers

Athens, 26-28 September 2014

The forthcoming 4th EU-Africa Summit, due to take place in Brussels in April 2014, will influence the way Africa-EU relations will develop in the years to come. Much has changed since the 3rd Summit held in Libya in November 2010. Many African countries are experiencing rapid economic growth, while Europe is coming out a damaging financial and banking crisis, which has revealed deep rifts and divisions. Against this background, the Workshop seeks to bring together scholars and researchers from relevant disciplines (political science, international relations, law, economics, sociology etc.) to discuss from both an African and a European perspective a broad range of topics on the challenges, the dynamics, the problems and the prospects of the ever developing EU-Africa relationship. Although papers can be proposed on all aspects of the relationship (politics and security, trade and aid) – always focusing on the interregional level, preference will be given to discussion of the following topics and themes:

  1. The contemporary status of the relationship: a post-post colonial relationship or a more equitable partnership?
  2. The current EU foreign policy architecture and its relevance to relations with Africa.
  3. The African Peace and Security Architecture (ASPA) and the role of the EU.
  4. The EU and the African Union: contributor, facilitator or strategic partner?
  5. The EU and regional integration in Africa
  6. The building stocks of the Africa-EU dialogue including the Joint Africa-EU Strategy, the Pan-African Programme and the European Neighbourhood Policy.
  7. EU Development Assistance to Africa.
  8. EU and African contributions to the MDGs and the global development agenda beyond 2015.
  9. The Economic Partnership Agreements and the future of EU-African trade relations.
  10. The EU Common Agricultural Policy and African agriculture.

Keynote speaker: Professor Daniel Bach, Sciences Po Bordeaux

All papers should be original and submitted for circulation to conference
participants in advance.

The best papers will be included in a collective volume to be published by an
international academic publisher.

Important dates

Abstracts should be e-mailed to: seeconference@uop.gr
Deadline for abstract submission: 30/04/2014
Notification of authors: 31/05/2014
Deadline for submission of full papers: 31/08/2014
Conference fee: (it includes the conference pack, coffee breaks and a reception) 100 EUR

View the conference Programme (Final)

Co-Organizers

Organizing Committee

  • Prof. Konstantinos Magliveras, University of the Aegean, Coordinator HNAS
  • Prof. Asteris Huliaras, University of the Peloponnese
  • Dr Sotiris Petropoulos, University of the Peloponnese

Scientific Committee

  • Prof. Maurizio Carbone, University of Glasgow, UK
  • Prof. Tony Chafer, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • Prof. Daniel Compagnon, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France
  • Prof. Robert Kappel, GIGA, Universität Hamburg, Germany
  • Prof. Gorm Rye Olsen, Roskilde University, Denmark
  • Prof. Daniella Sicurelli, University of Trento, Italy
  • Prof. Ian Taylor, University of St. Andrews, UK

Time / Date: 00:00, 26/09/2014 - 28/09/2014

Location: Ipitou 17b, Athens

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